Jonathan: 5623 books

This magisterial work chronicles the 350-year history of the Jewish religion in America. Tracing American Judaism from its origins in the colonial era through the present day, Jonathan Sarna explores the ways in which Judaism adapted in this new context. How did American culture-predominantly Protestant...

Compiled and indexed by Jonathan Dixon, this compilation was originally used as the basis for a course at Sylvan Lake Bahá'í School (Alberta, Canada). This compilation has been refined by time, exhaustive research and many years of practical application. "This compilation...

Si la literatura es el instrumento ideal para que el ser humano ilumine los recovecos más oscuros de su mundo interior y perciba con mayor nitidez la realidad que lo circunda, Jonathan Franzen es el novelista contemporáneo que más se ha atrevido a explorar las fronteras que condicionan nuestra...

Poetry for Leotards is a comical collection of poems written by JoNathan Kper. These simple and frequently short verses force the reader to ask themselves, "What is poetry?" In the vain of Brian McGakin's book "Broetry" Kiper seeks to strip the pretentiousness of poetry in a funny and enlightening way.

Award–winning investigative environmental journalist Jonathan P. Thompson digs into the science, politics, and greed behind the 2015 Gold King Mine disaster, and unearths a litany of impacts wrought by a century and a half of mining, energy development, and fracking in southwestern Colorado. Amid...

The real-life murder mysteries that rocked London between two world wars—from the author of Unsolved Murders of Victorian and Edwardian London. Unsolved crimes have a special fascination, none more so than unsolved murders. The shock of the crime itself and the mystery surrounding it, the...

Jonathan Bate believes that the slow, meditative reading of poetry – absorbing ourselves in the images of a poem, slowing to its beat, allowing our minds to rest in the pause of a line-ending – can bring us tranquility as we find echoes of our own experiences on the page. Experiences of beautiful...

Jonathan “Aggers” Agnew, England’s voice of cricket, showcases some of the very best writings on the noble game, from the 1930s to the present day. In this wide-ranging and beautifully-produced anthology, Test Match Special’s Jonathan ‘Aggers’ Agnew, chooses a wide variety of writings...

A brand new collection of state-of-the-art guides to business innovation and transformation   4 authoritative books help you infuse innovation throughout everything your business does: not just once, but constantly!   This extraordinary collection shows how to make breakthrough,...

Freedom to Serve is a book for ministers, nonprofit executive directors, and lay leaders who need to steward money, but aren't trained in financial management and can't or don't want to manage it themselves. According to church CFO Jonathan Ankney, there are three simple questions to answer: what...

Today's office is almost unrecognisable from its counterpart of 20 or 30 years ago. Everybody knows that. But what many fail to recognise is that the role of the executive assistant has developed enormously over that period as well. Or it should have. The new executive assistant is...

THE SAN FRANCISCO FALLACY IS NOT ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO. Rather, it’s about the herd instincts that drive tech companies to set up shop there, and the mistakes these herd instincts lead to. Most importantly, it’s about how to avoid making these same mistakes yourself. In The San Francisco Fallacy, serial...

Are you and your favorite teenager having too many conversations like this? "How was school?" "Fine." "Soccer practice?" "Same as always." "Anything interesting happen today?" "Nope." "Nice talking with you!" Let's...